Compared to Obama’s first speech to a joint session of Congress, Trump is just an upstart in the ego department.

Trump used the word “I” 40 times and said “my” 12 times during his speech at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday evening. During Obama’s first such address eight years earlier, he said “I” a total of 68 times and “my” on eight occasions.

Trump won points for staying on message, last night. The predicted word salad nightmare did not happen.

A lot of his signature words and phrases (“bigly,” “Believe me…”) were missing, thankfully.

And yes, even when he snuck in mention of his big government, totally-not-conservative “Ivankacare” and a trillion dollar infrastructure plan, everybody was pretty well mesmerized by his ability to keep from going off the rails, by that point.